The movie chronicles the ups and downs in life of one of the West's most famous individuals, Wyatt Earp, from a law student, through petty crook to lawman and entrepreneur; and above all, the most scared sheriff-gunslinger of his time. Devastated by his wife's death, Earp takes on the clean up the violence-dominated towns using his own unhesitating guns, with the help of his brothers Virgil and Morgan.